bucket

A number of bucket types exist, used for a variety of purposes. Though most of these are functional purposes, a number, including those constructed from precious metals, are used for ceremonial purposes. Common types of bucket and their adjoining purposes include:

• Water buckets used to carry water
• Household and garden buckets used for carrying liquids and granular products
• Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets constructed of bronze, ivory or other materials, found in several ancient or medieval cultures, sometimes known by the Latin for bucket, {{lang|la|situla}}
• Large scoops or buckets attached to loaders and telehandlers for landscaping agricultural and purposes
• Canvas buckets made of woven fabric, developed as a fire-resistant alternative to leather{{cite web |title=Fire Bucket, "Goodyear / 13" |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1340622 |website=National Museum of American History |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=10 January 2025}}
• Crusher buckets attached to excavators used for crushing and recycling material in the construction industry
• Buckets shaped like castles often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit
• Buckets in special shapes such as cast iron buckets or smelting buckets to hold liquid metal at high temperatures

Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or a lunch bucket. Buckets can be repurposed as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamber pots, "street" drums, or livestock feeders, amongst other uses. Buckets are also repurposed for the use of long term food storage by survivalists.{{cite web|last1=Durado|first1=John|title=Gamma Lids for Long Term Storage|url=http://www.pyramidreviews.com/product-reviews/outdoors-survival/gamma-lids/|website=Pyramid Reviews - Prepping for Life|date=22 February 2017 |access-date=3 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303124752/http://www.pyramidreviews.com/product-reviews/outdoors-survival/gamma-lids/|archive-date=3 March 2017}}

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When in reference to a shipping container, the term "pail" is used as a technical term, specifically referring to a bucket shaped package with a sealed top or lid, which is then used as a transport container for chemicals and industrial products.{{cite book |last=Soroka |first=W |title=Illustrated Glossary of Packaging Terminology |publisher=Institute of Packaging Professionals |edition=Second |url=http://www.iopp.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129074725/http://www.iopp.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=1 |archive-date=2011-01-29}}

File:Hemmoorer Eimer.jpg|Roman bronze {{lang|la|situla}} from Germany, 2nd–3rd century

Image:wooden_bucket.jpg|A wooden bucket

File:Feuerlöscheimer 19 Jh.jpg|German 19th century leather firebuckets, a common type before the invention of many modern materials

Image:Crusher bucket quarry.jpg|A crusher bucket

Image:AFlex-Monsoon-Bucket.jpg|A canvas bucket being used as a helicopter bucket

The bucket has been used in many phrases and idioms in the English language,{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/idioms/bucket |title=Dictionary.com, Idiomatic Phrases related to bucket |access-date=March 18, 2013}} some of which are regional or specific to the use of English in different English-speaking countries.

• Kick the bucket: an informal term referring to someone's death
• Drop the bucket on: to implicate a person in something (from Australian slang)
• A drop in the bucket: a small, inadequate amount in relation to how much is requested or asked, taken from the biblical Book of Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 15{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
• Bucket list: a list of activities an individual wishes to undertake before death

As an obsolete unit of measurement, at least one source documents a 'bucket' as being equivalent to {{convert|4|impgal}}.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CrmuSiCFyikC&pg=PA46 |title=The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey |isbn=9780486144979 |access-date=May 23, 2018 |last1=Klein |first1=Herbert Arthur |date=3 December 2012|publisher=Courier Corporation }}

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• Bobrinski Bucket
• Giberville bucket
• Bucket brigade
• Coal scuttle
• Mop
• Pail (container)
• There's a Hole in My Bucket
• Veronica Bucket

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